Hearing loss is a common communication disorder caused by various environmental and genetic factors. Hereditary hearing loss is very heterogeneous, and most of such cases involve sensorineural defects in the auditory pathway. There are currently 57 known autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss (DFNA) loci, and the causative genes have been identified at 22 of these loci. In the present study, we performed a genome-wide linkage analysis in a Korean family segregating autosomal dominant… CONTINUE READING